The latter was singled out for particular disapproval by the Communist Youth League for his references to pornography and drug use. For hip-hop artists in China to survive the crackdown and to buttress themselves against the vicissitudes of the censors, many are having to radically rebrand themselves to bring them in line with the core socialist values of the Chinese state. His previously edgier references to crime have been replaced with grandiose tributes to Chinese folk legends, gods, and the mythology of the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers in an effort to appease the higher-ups. The rules laid out by the Ministry of Culture are nebulous and sporadically enforced. Higher Brothers, a four-man hip-hop crew from Chengdu, have so far evaded the censors and have even managed to garner success internationally, most notably among the Asian-American community.

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